Science

This hour on Where We Live: Electrifying everything, from our cars to our homes, is key to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. But to do that, we need batteries. We take a look at the science behind how lithium ion batteries work and the environmental impacts of producing them.

On The Colin McEnroe Show: There’s a theory that ours isn’t the only universe. That there are, actually, infinitely many universes.That there are, then, infinitely many yous. So, this hour, in this universe, a show about all that. Or (at least) one version of a show about all that.

On The Colin McEnroe Show: How far would you go? How far would you go, for instance, to convince people to get vaccinated? Vaccination is, in a way, a test run. It’s a test run for some of the other big challenges we face. Like, for instance, climate change. How far would you go?

This hour on Where We Live: Scientists have found that our brains contain what’s called ‘grandmother neurons,’ which light up when we see a familiar face, like grandmother’s face. This could help explain how the brain identifies personally familiar faces, and what it could mean in our understanding of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and Autism.

Birds in the Eastern United States have been dying while suffering unusual symptoms recently.

The impending doom of an asteroid (or comet or whatever) colliding with the Earth is the premise of any number of movies and books and such. But what…

More than two thirds of Connecticut residents have received at least one shot of the covid vaccine.At the same time, a new and fast-spreading “delta…

For years, Alzheimer’s patients and their loved ones have hoped for new medical treatments for an incurable disease.This hour, we talk about the FDA’s…

Why is there something rather than nothing? This has been described as perhaps the most sublime philosophical question of all. This hour, we try to answer…

From ancient scrolls to modern toner cartridges, ink (in one form or another) has been around for millennia. And while we may take it for granted now, for…